Intel XDK: An HTML5 development IDE • Hacker News Board

Re: Intel XDK: An HTML5 development IDE

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 26, 2013, 11:57 PM UTC

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Re: Intel XDK: An HTML5 development IDE

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Post by Trufa » Fri, Dec 27, 2013, 12:36 AM UTC

Incredible, the website looks terrible on tablets and phones.

Re: Intel XDK: An HTML5 development IDE

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Post by malkia » Fri, Dec 27, 2013, 12:54 AM UTC

michaelmior wrote: post #31

Disappointed to see that it's Windows only.

I got it running on my HP pavillion Chromebook 14 (stable) in developer mode using croutonized debian jessie (64-bit). It works but I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to do with it :)

Re: Intel XDK: An HTML5 development IDE

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Post by malkia » Fri, Dec 27, 2013, 12:55 AM UTC

jbeja wrote: post #38

simplehuman wrote: post #32

Am I the only one who finds the UI is horribly ugly? The tabs make no sense. Why is it all hogging the ide space when most of the things are rarely used (services, build) - why not put them in the menu? Products likes these are what give HTML5 a bad name.

Yeah is ugly and dated and the users experience is not there, i don't know why a big company like Intel doesn't know that the first layer of conversion is the design. Make thing pretty and pleasant to use before launch!.

I feel that UX designer cannot be fulltime job at some of these places

Re: Intel XDK: An HTML5 development IDE

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Post by ghenne » Fri, Dec 27, 2013, 12:08 PM UTC

simplehuman wrote: post #32

Am I the only one who finds the UI is horribly ugly? The tabs make no sense. Why is it all hogging the ide space when most of the things are rarely used (services, build) - why not put them in the menu? Products likes these are what give HTML5 a bad name.

Which products do you think do a good job?

Re: Intel XDK: An HTML5 development IDE

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Post by _random_ » Fri, Dec 27, 2013, 1:38 PM UTC

michaelmior wrote: post #31

Disappointed to see that it's Windows only.

They are just targeting the 95% of developers.

Re: Intel XDK: An HTML5 development IDE

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Post by walid » Fri, Dec 27, 2013, 3:32 PM UTC

Why does an IDE require a username and password to use it?

Re: Intel XDK: An HTML5 development IDE

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Post by michaelmior » Fri, Dec 27, 2013, 3:47 PM UTC

_random_ wrote: post #46

michaelmior wrote: post #31

Disappointed to see that it's Windows only.

They are just targeting the 95% of developers.

While there are certainly a lot of developers using Windows, I'm skeptical that it's as high as 95% given the number of developers using Mac OS these days.

Re: Intel XDK: An HTML5 development IDE

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 27, 2013, 3:48 PM UTC

_random_ wrote: post #46

michaelmior wrote: post #31

Disappointed to see that it's Windows only.

They are just targeting the 95% of developers.

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Re: Intel XDK: An HTML5 development IDE

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Post by xmnboy » Fri, Dec 27, 2013, 5:14 PM UTC

lazyjones wrote: post #27

It's a good idea and apparently a slick package, but useless due to the restrictive license and binary-only distribution. I certainly won't build and distribute mobile apps with whatever obscure (and non-removable according to ToS) "security features" Intel has decided to bundle with the runtime e.g. to comply with arbitrary requests by various rogue government agencies. If they want us to build HTML5 apps for their…

The license you are referring to (http://appcenter.html5tools-software.intel.com/TOS/) applies to the XDK itself, not to the apps you create with the XDK. Intel is not restricting how you choose to redistribute the apps you produce with the Intel XDK, they belong to you and you can redistribute them however you wish (in source form or binary form).